{"id":4679,"date":"2023-06-06T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=4679"},"modified":"2023-06-06T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:56:53","slug":"1964-1965","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/1964-1965\/","title":{"rendered":"1964-1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"past-year\">Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n5th Annual Program<\/h2>\n<p><!--Download the 44th Annual Program--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 19, 1964 | <a href=\"#anchor1\">Theory Construction in Social Science: Dilemmas and Problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 9, 1964 | <a href=\"#anchor2\">Chapter Zero of a Text on Information Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 23, 1964 | <a href=\"#anchor3\">Epistemology of Chance in Certain Newer Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 30, 1964 | <a href=\"#anchor4\">How We See Straight Lines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 7, 1964 | <a href=\"#anchor5\">Elementarity of Measurement in General Relativity: Toward a General Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 29, 1964 | <a href=\"#anchor6\">Modern Contribution to the Theory of Innate Ideas<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 12, 1965 | <a href=\"#anchor7\">Logic with Platonism<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 8, 1965 | <a href=\"#anchor8\">Natural Kinds<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 1, 1965 | <a href=\"#anchor9\">Metaphysics as Heuristic for Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 5, 1965 | <a href=\"#anchor10\">Probability as a Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 17, 1965 | <a href=\"#anchor11\">Varieties of Metaphysics<\/a><a href=\"#anchor15\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Theory Construction in Social Science: Dilemmas and Problems<\/h3>\n<p>October 19, 1964<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Benjamin Nelson<\/strong>, State University of New York at Stony Brook<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Bernard Phillips<\/strong>, Boston University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Chapter Zero of a Text on Information Theory<\/h3>\n<p>November 9, 1964<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>David Hawkins<\/strong>, University of Colorado<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Epistemology of Chance in Certain Newer Sciences<\/h3>\n<p>November 23, 1964<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Benoit Mandelbrot<\/strong>, IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Paul Kootner<\/strong>, M.I.T.; <strong>Walter Rosenblith<\/strong>, M.I.T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">How We See Straight Lines<\/h3>\n<p>November 30, 1964<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>John R. Platt<\/strong>, University of Chicago<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <strong>Richard Held<\/strong>, M.I.T.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Elementarity of Measurement in General Relativity: Toward a General Theory<\/h3>\n<p>December 7, 1964<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Mendel Sachs<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commentators: <strong>W. Flurry<\/strong>, Harvard University; <strong>Robert S. Cohen<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Modern contribution to the Theory of Innate Ideas<\/h3>\n<p>December 29, 1964<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><b>Noam Chomsky<\/b>, M.I.T.; <strong>Hilary Putnam<\/strong>, M.I.T.; <strong>Nelson Goodman<\/strong>, Brandeis University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Logic with Platonism<\/h3>\n<p>January 12, 1965<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>George Berry<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator:<strong> John Vickers<\/strong>, Brandeis University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Natural Kinds<\/h3>\n<p>February 8, 1965<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>George Schlesinger<\/strong>, Australian National University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commentator: <strong>Frederick Sommers<\/strong>, Brandeis University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Metaphysics as Heuristic for Science<\/h3>\n<p>March 1, 1965<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Marx W. Wartofsky<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commentator: <strong>Ruth Anna Putnam<\/strong>, Wellesley College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Probability as a Science<\/h3>\n<p>April 5, 1965<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Hilda Geiringer von Mises<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commentators: <strong>Philipp Frank<\/strong>, Harvard University; <strong>Laszlo Tisza<\/strong>, M.I.T.\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Classical Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics<\/h3>\n<p>April 27, 1965<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Aage Petersen<\/strong>, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <strong>David Falkoff<\/strong>, Brandeis University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor12 \"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Elementarity<\/h3>\n<p>May 11, 1965<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>William A. Wallace<\/strong>, Dominican House of Studies, Dover<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <b>Mary Miller<\/b>, Tufts University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor13\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Varieties of Metaphysics<\/h3>\n<p>May 17, 1965<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Gerd Buchdahl<\/strong>, Cambridge University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science 5th Annual Program October 19, 1964 | Theory Construction in Social Science: Dilemmas and Problems November 9, 1964 | Chapter Zero of a Text on Information Theory November 23, 1964 | Epistemology of Chance in Certain Newer Sciences November 30, 1964 | How We See Straight Lines December 7, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6868,"featured_media":0,"parent":101,"menu_order":56,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4679\/revisions\/4680"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}